2026-06-12
Surprise AMA 06/11/2026
- A surprise AMA covering the state of RealFi, Pogen, and Midnight, alongside the planned migration of the community from X to a moderated Discord.
- Midnight City is a major theme, an agent to agent world with personality tests, private NFTs, and agentic trading that becomes watchable like the Truman Show.
- Technical updates include Leios and Paris pushing throughput into the tens of thousands of TPS, and how vibe coding with Claude Code returned his love of programming.
- Personal tangents range from a failed SpaceX and Vast astronaut marketing mission to the bullet ant ritual, the clinic winding down, and his health and fasting.
- A recurring thread is the toxicity of X, the courage to be disliked, and repeatedly debunking old allegations like the 1090 BTC and Gavin Wood claims.
36 entries
RealFi is progressing with John O'Connor stepping into the RealFi Foundation, Pogen is coming for Bitcoin DeFi, and Midnight ships a major release every three months.
Midnight City is integrating Enneagram and Myers-Briggs style personality tests so each agent you create has a unique personality.
The community is transitioning from X to a moderated Discord, learning from the Midnight Discord that grew from 11,000 to 49,000 users.
Self proclaimed transparency heroes claim IO gave Gavin Wood 200 million dollars, though he last saw Gavin in person in June 2014.
He never wanted to build a CBDC for the evil ones, releasing the Parscoins paper on can't be evil CBDC technology that no country wants.
NFTs are either a representation of a physical thing or digital art in their own right, and both need a community that values the scarcity.
Midnight adds private NFTs, letting you possess something without others knowing, plus soulbound tokens tied to agents.
Midnight City is building a multi sided marketplace for trading strategies that are private but licensable, paying a percentage on returns.
Pogen is not paused, it is a commercial deal that would have connected its Bitcoin DeFi upside to the Cardano treasury, which the community rejected.
Lace Passport is deprecated in favor of Midnight Passport, used across all product lines for its privacy and selective disclosure features.
He coordinates with Senator Tim Scott on school choice, a passion as a former homeschooler, beyond just crypto matters.
He trained in remote viewing with Joe McMoneagle at the Monroe Institute, the original Stargate program figure.
A SpaceX and Vast plan would have bought a mission where ADA and Midnight holders apply to be astronauts and train with him, but the price was too high.
The Denver Broncos, not the NFL, sought crypto sponsorship in the 2021 FTX era, and now only the UFC still takes crypto money.
The most exciting real world asset use is reinsurance and exotic insurance marketplaces, explored with insurers in Bermuda at SALT.
With Leios and Paris on a tick tock cycle, Cardano can reach tens of thousands of TPS and is no longer throughput constrained.
Claude Code and vibe coding returned his love of programming, with more GitHub commits in six months than the prior ten years.
Vibe engineering still needs specifications, architecture, and an aggressive test surface, plus harness engineering with knowledge graphs and paired auditing agents.
He has been exploring homoiconicity in Lisp and quines, self replicating programs, to see if agents could become self replicating.
The Gillette clinic is winding down by September because medicine is not profitable and the American healthcare system is deeply broken.
His mushroom farm burned down, but he defends the wider mushroom kingdom, from turkey tail's anti cancer properties to the Viking Amanita muscaria berserker ritual.
On the CLARITY act, the CFTC has only about 530 people versus the SEC's near 10,000, so it cannot take on that load without a budget increase.
Democrats want ethics concessions barring the president from participating in the market, and Cardano and Midnight being mature means he does not worry about regulation.
Social networks are now human to bot, so Midnight City builds an agent to agent world that becomes watchable as agents form their own civilization.
Agentic trading lets you give intent to an agent with its own wallet to trade the big six of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, BNB, and hyperliquid.
On health, he is fasting three days a week, has lost 14 pounds toward a goal of 185 by Token 2049, and tracks sleep with an Oura Ring despite gout flare ups.
The hardest part is mental health, since allegations are spectacle for spectators and professional victims who attack, then play hurt.
He tried fighting allegations in 2025 with audits and disclosures but could never get ahead, so now he chooses the courage to be disliked.
There is no animus toward Vitalik and he would happily work with him, but Vitalik has decided Charles is not a good person and never engages.
For his 2021 birthday in Egypt he tried to get Toto to play Africa at the pyramids, but they wanted a million dollars.
Steve Miller and CCR played the 2018 Cardano Summit in Miami, requiring 14 insured guitars flown out, one of which Tam would not give back.
Trust is a 300 billion dollar a year problem that keeps getting worse as nation states like China and the US diverge, requiring verifiable reflexivity.
The bullet ant tucandeira ritual is a rite of passage that the West lacks, part of why young men feel so lost.
His ADA holdings have been public record since a 2017 disclosure with a three year voluntary vest, and the 1090 BTC was Michael Parsons' 440,000 dollar audit fee.
He is excited about Star Stream, Leios, Midgard, and Hydra coming true, and proud that liquid non custodial staking now works at scale.
He never jumped out of Blackhawks in Afghanistan, a rumor from a bitter book repeated as fact by people who never met him.